Paisley wore it all – down to the blond wig – and strutted across the stage.

Her costume created a furor.

"When are we going to stop sexualizing our children?" asked Sherri Shepherd, co-host of ABC's "The View." "Your job is to protect your child … if you don't think pedophiles are watching this show, I have a bridge I want to sell you."

Even some of the other pageant moms – who can be thicker-skinned – were angered by it.

"Us pageant moms already take a huge rap for what we're doing with our little girls and it's outfits like that that give us a bad rap," said one mother.

But the criticism doesn't faze Paisley's mom. Dickey said the costume was meant to be funny.

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"The whole idea was for people to see the comedy behind it. It's like when you take your children to a kids' movie, there's always adult humor that the parents get that the children don't get and that's what it was about," she said in an interview with "Good Morning America."

Dickey designed the outfit herself, and she's outraged that people think she's sexualizing her toddler daughter.

She told "GMA" that even though pedophiles were "everywhere," she didn't think they were "so much at pageants."

"When you take your children to the beach you put swimsuits on your girls, bikinis on your little ones or your big ones or teenagers," she said. "I think there are just as many or more pedophiles at the beach and in the park and anywhere ... I do not believe pageants are a breeding ground for pedophiles."

"The entire premise of the show is troubling, is disturbing when you have the premise of the show is to sex up your little girl, but when you have them portraying the character of a prostitute … you're taking away the youthful essence of these little girls," Tim Winter, the organization's president, said. "Three-year-old girls shouldn't be sexy."

Six-year-old Eden Wood has been competing since before she could walk. Her mother, Micki Wood, says the costumes are what get the girls noticed by the judges.